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#1315797 - 01/05/12 11:24 AM
Owego Police to Dissolve?
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newsman38
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Registered: 03/21/01
Posts: 3751
Loc: Fourth Estate
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Talks to dissolve police department in Owego
OWEGO, N.Y. -- Occupying roughly a quarter of the village's budget, there are some village board trustees who believe the police department is no longer affordable and that the county sheriff and state police can handle the load.
"We're only 2.7 square miles out of 500 and something square miles. It's not like we are asking the sheriff to double his patrols," said trustee Thomas Clark.
The police department serves the village 24/7 with seven full time officers and some part timers as well. For 2012, the department's budget sits at about $832,000, which some believe is simply too much. Village trustee Thomas Clark says it is time people get past their emotions and look at the facts.
"You heard some people tonight very concerned about it, but the only rationale they gave was, 'I've always had a police department.' Well, a lot of people have always had a police department, that doesn't mean you need that level of police department," said Clark.
At Tuesday night's board meeting, a draft of the law dissolving the department was distributed to trustees and they will have two weeks to think over the issue.
Nothing will be decided for quite a while as the issue still needs to come before a public vote, probably in March.
01/03/2012 11:28 PM
By: Bill Mich
YNN
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#1340402 - 04/23/12 10:43 PM
Re: Owego Police to Dissolve?
[Re: Mean Gene]
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VM Smith
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Registered: 11/28/05
Posts: 34257
Loc: Reality
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Times are tough, all around, and SF has also been hurt, by the loss of various industries, over the years. They've been living in LaLaLand, and it's high time they awakened and dealt with reality.
It's all very fine to wish for this or that, and make the case that it's desirable, but "Can we afford it, without putting the fiscal KOD on the Town?" should also be considered, much more than it has been.
The nation is also overdue for some hard choices, although one of them's pretty easy, for me, anyway: Less spending on what was, and still properly should be, called the War Department; the name change amounted to steering the public's perception, AKA propaganda.
Less national spending on that could translate to, among other things, more revenue sharing with local governments.
Or, limiting spending to what revenues actually are, instead of borrowing 60% of what is being spent. There are still some choices, but the opportunity to choose is rapidly closing.
Compound interest can be a sweet friend, but it's a hard master, if you're on the wrong side of it.
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The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.
John Hay (1872)
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